Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
“Professor Trevor Anderson receives his teenager nephew Sean Anderson. He will spend ten days with his uncle while his mother, Elizabeth, prepares to move to Canada. She gives a box to Trevor that belonged to his missing brother, Max, and Trevor finds a book with references to the last journey of his brother. He decides to follow the steps of Max with Sean and they travel to Iceland, where they meet the guide Hannah Ásgeirsson. While climbing a mountain, there is a thunderstorm and they protect themselves in a cave. However, a lightening collapses the entrance and the trio is trapped in the cave. They seek an exit and falls in a hole, discovering a lost world in the center of the Earth. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”
- Director: Eric Brevig
- Release Date: 11 July 2008 (USA)
- Run Time: 93 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action , Adventure , Family , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Thriller
- MPAA: Rated PG for intense adventure action and some scary moments.; Rated PG-13 for some bloody sci-fi violence. (special edition)
Tagline: Same Planet. Different World.
Trivia: When Trevor opens the box of stuff belonging to his lost brother, he pulls out an odd wooden item, declares that he doesn’t know what it is, and sets it aside. The item is a Holmes Stereoscope, a device designed in 1861 by the American physician and writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, for the viewing of so-called “stereocards”. A stereocard is like a postcard which has a Left-view and Right-view photograph mounted alongside one another. When viewed through this stereoscope, the photographs are merged into one 3-D image (which was later adopted for the ViewMaster viewers and cards). The Holmes Stereoscope was a great source of entertainment in the Victorian era. It was, in a sense, the Home Entertainment Centre of its day, as it transported its users to exotic places all over the world. People bought packs of stereocards for their entertainment – in much the same way as we buy DVDs today! (Thus, a character in a 3-D movie having no idea what a stereoscope is, makes for a cute little 3-D in-joke…)
Goofs: Factual errors: The three gems found in the tube are emeralds, rubies and diamonds. Except in placer deposits (eroded sands containing gems), these three compounds cannot be found together, particularly in metamorphic rock since diamonds only exist in igneous rock.